It's April, and that means episode four of the Catalyst story for the year. In this release comes a video conversion utility for MCE, video quality improvements, performance improvements and a phat bugfix list.
Performance improvements are:
3DMark06 CPU scores improve as much as 4.9% across all product lines
3DMark06 HDR 2 Deep Freeze (SM3.0) test improves as much as 2%
Call of Duty 2 improves approximately 1.4-2% on Radeon® X1900 and Radeon® X1800 Crossfire™ configurations. Gains are slightly less (1.3%) for non-Crossfire™ Radeon® X1900 and Radeon® X1800 products
FarCry improves 2-3% on ATI Radeon® X1900 non-Crossfire configurations. Greatest improvements result from tests with no AA and AF Half Life 2 improves as much as 3.8% on Radeon® X1900 non-Crossfire configurations. Greatest improvements result from tests with no AA and AF
Unreal Tournament 2004 gains 3-5% on all Radeon® X1x00 non-Crossfire configurations
The bug fix list is rather long, but it includes some Windows and game related bugs, those games including Doom 3, Oblivion, Quake 4 and Dawn of War.
Head on over to the ATI website to pick up the drivers. Also, as we revealed earlier this week, there's also now a new Linux driver release, in which X1K cards are supported, so pengiun fans may want to check those out.
